PERL CGI Beginners - PID from FORK doesn't match the PID on WINDOWS.

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PID from FORK doesn't match the PID on WINDOWS.

travis.masters@wachovia.com

2005-11-07, 9:55 pm

Hi all,

I'm running a cgi script on Windows and I'm trying to capture the PID
from a child process using SYSTEM(). What I have found from other
topics in perl.beginners seems to recommend using FORK with EXEC. I
have tried this code and the PID returned from the CGI doesn't match
the PID listed on TaskMgr for Windows. In fact it doesn't match any
PID (parent or child) or any process running. Can anyone provide the
code to capture the PID of a child using FORK, EXEC, or SYSTEM?
Thanks.

#!/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $prog = 'some_executable';

my $pid = fork();
unless ($pid) {
exec($prog);
die "Can't start $prog: $!";
}

print "Pid is $pid\n";

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